Doctoral students at the Chair
Ongoing dissertation projects
Pauline Dunkel, Dipl.-Soz.
Topic of the dissertation project:
"Images of crisis - a structural reconstruction of (late) modern representations of crisis in the mass media after Roland Barthes"
Mirjam Gräbner, Dipl.-Soz.
Topic of the dissertation project:
"Gender narratives in tourism discourses in the Federal Republic and the GDR around 1970" (working title)
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Marianne Heinze, M.A.
Topic of the dissertation project:
"Commodity-aesthetic subjectivity. Shifts and renewals in discourses of alternative consumption" (working title)
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Lilian Leupold, Dipl.-Soz.
Topic of the dissertation project:
"Consumer Dispositions and Work Orientations: An Analysis Among Business Professionals"
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Completed doctorates (supervisor Dominik Schrage):
Jan Wetzel, M.A.
Title of dissertation:
"The value of form. A sociology of design from the Renaissance to the Bauhaus"
(defended on 17.10.2025 at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at TU Dresden)
Richard Groß, Dipl.-Soz.
Title of dissertation:
"Situations of machine learning. On computational
indeterminacy transformations and practical problem calibrations"
(defended on 28.05.2025 at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at TU Dresden).
Dr. Felix Schilk, Dipl.-Soz. (since 1.5.2023 employee in the project "REDACT: Researching Europe, Digitalization and Conspiracy Theory" at the University of Tübingen)
Title of the dissertation:
"The new-right narrative community. A Sociology of Conservative Crisis Narratives" (defended on December 18, 2023 at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at TU Dresden).
Published in August 2024 by transcript (open access) under the title "Die Erzählgemeinschaft der Neuen Rechten. On the political sociology of conservative crisis narratives".
Awarded the dissertation prize of the Kulturstiftung Dresden der Commerzbank 2024.
Dr. Max Lionel Ischebeck, Dipl.-Soz. (Head of the public music school in Springe and guitarist in the independent jazz scene)
Title of the dissertation:
"Subject culture and musical defragmentation. The specific social function of
function of music in the Romantic period around 1800 and in the German
Technoculture of the 1990s" (defended on 23.11.2023 at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Friedrich Schiller University Jena).
Published in 2025 under the title "Das Subjekt im Klang. Die spezifische soziale Funktion der Musik in der Romantik um 1800 und in der deutschen Technoszene der 1990er Jahre" by VS Verlag (Wiesbaden) in the series "Auditive Vergesellschaftungen: Hörsinn - Audiotechnik - Musikerleben" (ed. Dominik Schrage and Holger Schwetter).
Dr. Marc Drobot, Dipl.-Soz. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) (since 1.10.2023 wiss. Employee at the Chair of Sociological Theories at Chemnitz University of Technology)
Title of the dissertation:
"ˌzolidaʁiˈtɛːt. Eine historisch-wissenssoziologische Untersuchung zum Funktions- und Deutungswandel des Solidaritätsbegriffs" (defended on 10.10.2023 at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at TU Dresden).
Published in 2025 under the title"Zolidarität - Eine historisch-wissenssoziologische Untersuchung zum Funktions- und Deutungswandel des Solidaritätsbegriffs" by VS Verlag (Wiesbaden).
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Hoklas, M.A. ( Research Associate at the Chair since 1.11.2017)
Title of the dissertation:
"Media music listening as a sociomaterial practice in transition. Generation-specific practices and orientations of audio media use" (defended on 25.10.2017 at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at TU Dresden)
Dr. Miklas Schulz(University of Hanover, currently visiting professor at the University of Hildesheim)
Title of the dissertation:
"Auditivity and hermeneutics. The reconstruction of ways of hearing under the conditions of technological (re-)producibility of language" (defended on 3.11.2016 at the University of Lüneburg)
The revised version of the dissertation was published in 2017 under the title "Hören als Praxis. Sinnliche Wahrnehmungsweisen technisch (re-)produzierter Sprache" published by VS Verlag (Wiesbaden) in the series "Auditive Vergesellschaftungen: Hörsinn - Audiotechnik - Musikerleben" (ed. Dominik Schrage and Holger Schwetter).